Lauren Sherman

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

Line Sheet, the ultimate fashion industry bible, offers daily intel from Lauren Sherman, Rachel Strugatz, and Sarah Shapiro on every aspect of the business and its biggest players. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox.) Here’s the latest you need to know:Jesse Derris, founder of the influential P.R. agency Derris, has moved into a broader role at Orchestra, the private equity–backed umbrella agency previously known as BerlinRosen.

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

Line Sheet, the ultimate fashion industry bible, offers daily intel from Lauren Sherman, Rachel Strugatz, and Sarah Shapiro on every aspect of the business and its biggest players. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox.) Here’s the latest you need to know:Another high-level executive is in conversations about leaving Shiseido, the troubled Japanese beauty giant that abruptly bid adieu to its Americas C.E.O. and global M&A lead, Ron Gee, less than a month ago.

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

An industry friend of mine recently offered a psychological observation about yours truly. “You love a sub-$5 million brand and an above-$2 billion brand more than anyone I know,” he said. It’s true: While my number-one rule is to follow the money, incipient brands offer the promise of what money could be made in the future. The brands in the middle are often, well, middling: That’s when going gets hard, and often kinda boring.

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

Line Sheet, the ultimate fashion industry bible, offers daily intel from Lauren Sherman, Rachel Strugatz, and Sarah Shapiro on every aspect of the business and its biggest players. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox.) Here’s the latest you need to know:Last year, famously, was the beauty M&A year that wasn’t.

1 week ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

I’m not sure I’ll ever wake up the day after the Met Gala thinking the red carpet was awesome. (Philosophical dress codes are always hard.) However, this year’s party—which, as I reported on Monday, raised at least $31 million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute—was unique. Remember, the title of the exhibition is Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, based on Monica Miller’s 2009 book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.